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Jerusalem, Mosque of Omar

Date Added

21/07/2019

Content Type

Art And Craft

Category

Paintings

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Subject Area

Architecture


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Date Created: 19th-20th century

Subject: Mosques

Repository: Leo Baeck Institute at the Center for Jewish History

Physical Dimensions: w23 x h18.2 cm

Artist Biography: Hermann Struck was born Chaim Aaron ben David in 1876 in Germany. He is best known as a master etcher, lithographer and early Zionist. He studied for five years at the Berlin Academy and in 1908 wrote Die Kunst des Radierens (The Art of Etching), while mentoring artists such as Marc Chagall, Max Liebermann and Lesser Ury. His art was included in an exhibition at the Fifth Zionist Congress and he helped establish the religious Zionist movement called Mizrachi. Struck was an Orthodox Jew but believed that culture and religion could thrive cooperatively in Israel. He immigrated to Haifa where he created an artistic community and participated in the development of the Tel Aviv Museum and the Bezalel art school in Jerusalem. He died in 1944.

Type: Etching

Medium: Ink on paper

 

View of mosque looking over rooftops with hills in background. Titled on back.


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Type of Work: Etching

Artist: Hermann Struck

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